Laurence Sulivan PC (1783–1866) was a British statesman and philanthropist, Deputy

Secretary at War The secretary at war was a political position in the English and later British government, with some responsibility over the administration and organization of the Army, but not over military policy. The Secretary at War ran the War Office. Aft ...

. He was the grandson of

Laurence Sulivan Laurence Sulivan (1713–1786) was an Anglo-Irish politician, Member of Parliament first for Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a Minster (church), minster church. Its population i ...

MP, chairman of the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

. He was the Deputy Secretary at War. He endowed the "Elizabethan Ragged School" (now the Castle Club), Broomhouse Lane,

Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Chelsea ...

, London, named in honour of his wife Elizabeth, the younger sister of the Prime Minister

Lord Palmerston Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to 1865. A m ...

. It later became a school for tubercular children run by the LCC and then a youth club.

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1783 births 1866 deaths Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom {{England-politician-stub